Macbeth Quiz 2 Vocab

Question 0

mirth

Answer 0

gladness and merriment usually followed by laughter

Syn.
glee, hilarity, jollity
Ant.
sadness

Question 1

mettle

Answer 1

courage or spirit

Syn.
resolution, tendency
Ant.
lack of courage

Question 2

mortify

Answer 2

to humiliate, to wound pride, experience shame

Ant.
to calm, to soothe

Question 3

oblivion

Answer 3

the state of being forgotten

Ant.
remembrance

Question 4

palatable

Answer 4

agreeable to the taste, acceptable

Ant.
distasteful

Question 5

pernicious

Answer 5

very destructive or harmful

Syn.
baneful, deleterious, detrimental, noxious
Ant.
harmless, benign

Question 6

plight

Answer 6

difficult or adverse situation

Ant.
fortunate situation

Question 7

prate

Answer 7

to talk idly or foolishly at great length

Ant.
to speak about serious matters

Question 8

prattle

Answer 8

meaningless sounds, babble

Ant.
articulate language

Question 9

purveyors

Answer 9

one who provides or procures

Question 10

quell

Answer 10

to quiet or to put down a disturbance

Ant.
to foment, to incite

Question 11

rancor

Answer 11

bitter deep-seated ill will, enmity

Syn.
animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, hostility
Ant.
affection, kindness

Question 12

reconcile

Answer 12

to reestablish friendship, to resolve a dispute

Ant.
to alienate

Question 13

rend

Answer 13

to tear violently, to split

Syn.
cleave, rive
Ant.
to unify

Question 14

requite

Answer 14

to make repayment or return

Ant.
to withhold

Question 15

rue

Answer 15

to be sorry for, to regret

Ant.
to consider happily

Question 16

sanctify

Answer 16

to set apart for sacred use, to make holy, to purify

Ant.
to taint

Question 17

scrupulous

Answer 17

very principled, very careful and conscientious

Syn.
meticulous, punctilious
Ant.
unprincipled

Question 18

spurn

Answer 18

to reject or refuse with hostility

Ant.
to embrace

Question 19

stealthy

Answer 19

acting in a secret and sneaky way–this is a negative term

Syn.
clandestine, covert, furtive, surreptitious, underhanded
Ant.
open, indiscreet

Question 20

surfeited

Answer 20

fed or supplied to excess

Syn.
cloyed, glutted, gorged, palled, sated, satiated
Ant.
starved

Question 21

temperate

Answer 21

exercising self control

Ant.
extreme

Question 22

trifling

Answer 22

not significant, frivolous

Ant.
important, significant

Question 23

usurp

Answer 23

to take possession or authority over something without right

Ant.
to acquiesce

Question 24

wanton

Answer 24

immoral, lewd

Ant.
moral